Revit Creating the Floor Plan Callouts of the Kitchen and Bathrooms and Setting Up the Kitchen Floor Surface Material

Creating the Floor Plan Callouts of the Kitchen and Bathrooms
and Setting Up the Kitchen Floor Surface Material

In this tutorial you will create detailed views of different rooms known as Callouts. You will also setup the floor surface material for the kitchen.

Open the RL2-7 file. Save the file as RL2-8.

Open the First Floor view. Zoom in to the kitchen area.
Go to the Callout tool in the View tab, Create panel.

Callout Tool

Click above and to the left of the kitchen area and then drag the mouse down and to the right.

Create the shape as shown.

Kitchen Callout Boundary

Click on the bubble and drag using the handles to locate it at the top left of the boundary.

New Callout Bubble Location

A new view is created in the Floor Plans category called First Floor – Callout 1.

Double-click on the view name to open the view.

New View Created

The reason for a callout view is to show a portion of a plan view, elevation, and section at a larger scale. These callout views will be added to a sheet at the end of the project.

Use 1/2″ = 1′-0″ for the scale of the view. Add the notes and dimensions to the view as shown.

Annotated Callout View of the Kitchen

Create a callout view of the first floor bathroom and second floor bathroom/lavatory.

First Floor Restroom Callout Second Floor Restroom/Lavatory Callout

Organizing the Views

To organize the views, you will create a new view type called Callouts. Any time you wish to organize a group of views into their own type you may follow this procedure.

Open the FIRST FLOOR – Callout 1 floor plan view.
Click on the Edit Type button at the top of the Properties window.

Type Properties for the Floor Plan System Family

The Type Properties for the Floor Plan System Family opens.

Click the Duplicate button to create a new view type.

Edit Type Button

Name the new view type, Callouts.

Click the OK button to close the dialog box.

Click OK again to create the view

type.

Name Dialog Box

The FIRST FLOOR – Callout 1 view is moved to the new view type.

New View Type – Floor Plans (Callouts)

Open the FIRST FLOOR – Callout 2 view and change the type selector to the new view type.

You can also select the view and change the type to Callout without opening the view.

Callouts View Type Selected

To delete an unused view type, use the Purge Unused tool in the Manage tab, Settings panel.

Note: Only view types that are not being used will show in the list.

Make sure that you click the Check None button before purging to avoid removing elements that you might need later.

The number of Checked Items will appear at the bottom of the dialog box.

Purge Unused Tool

Purge Unused Dialog Box and Check None Button

Setting Up the Floor Surface Material for the Kitchen

Switch to the First Floor view and zoom in on the kitchen.

These next steps will have you set up the material for the kitchen floor.

Click on the Materials tool in the Manage tab, Settings panel.
In the Autodesk Materials folder, find the material called Tile, Quarry.

If the Library panel is closed, click on the “Show/Hides library panel” tool to

open it.

Select the material and click on the up arrow to the right of the material name to load the material into the drawing file.

Show/Hide Library Panel

Note: Occasionally the Autodesk material folder will not load properly. If this happens, usually a restart of the Revit software will solve the problem.